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O.P. Huh?  Foreign Characters On Display Name
Does anyone know why the Characters from Character Map on XP become boxes on WLM display names?
07-11-2008 04:14 AM
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RE: Foreign Characters On Display Name
Because WLM doesn't support most of those special characters.
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07-11-2008 07:43 AM
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O.P. RE: Foreign Characters On Display Name
Most of my friends WLM can support some of the common speical characters suchas hearts and symbols
07-11-2008 02:23 PM
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RE: Foreign Characters On Display Name
on the messenger list its self if u are talkin that ya it will do that but in the convo if u see box's with other ppls names and stuff

then go here and read this - http://forum.mess.be/index.php?showtopic=23481 -

i had a prob and i got pointed to that when i posted about it on the mess be forum so hope that works :)..

if u do that and when u type to them it should show up but like i said on the messenger list on yours at the top besides the picture it wont..

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07-11-2008 07:21 PM
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RE: Foreign Characters On Display Name
I had this problem before...

I think you need to install Chinese and Arabic characters. They should be on the XP installation disc.
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I had this problem before...

I think you need to install Chinese and Arabic characters. They should be on the XP installation disc.

yea and the link shows em :) lol
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07-12-2008 01:57 AM
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O.P. RE: Foreign Characters On Display Name
hmm, bigb88 I'm afraid this didn't fix my problem, and i have the chinese and arabic characters installed.
any more suggestions?:^)
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where do u see the box?? and u did what they said there? both parts
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07-13-2008 04:24 AM
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O.P. RE: Foreign Characters On Display Name
I see the boxes on my display name during chat, and I see the boxes on my contacts name and on my list, they look like this [] and sometimes the perfect square ones. I can see characters like "Ä,ō etc" on WLM and during chat but I don't know why the korean letters or symbols like the heart become squared.
Yes I have done what they said, Both of them too
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